Stromboli: Sandwich of the Gods

[Ganico]

I've been wanting a stromboli for months, no place here sells them. Well except "sbarros" in the mall, but I always heard they were pretty much a hot pocket.
Anyway, I made my own. I didn't make the dough cause I bought the ingredients at 1:30am. I got some storebought pizza dough. Hopefully it'll be okay, it smells like a real stromboli.

Oh, and it's pepperoni,ham,and salami, with of course mozzarela. Melted some butter,garlic salt,and oregano and brushed it on top.

I'm pretty fucking excited about it as you can tell. Apparently the grease from all the meat and cheese dripped down and soaked through the bottom layer of dough and morphed it into some kind of cheese bread hybrid. +10000 points, I'm pretty sure this is the path to enlightenment. Thank you to the Italians for that one

 

[Ganico]

I hadn't tasted it yet when I posted that, I've now eaten about 1/3 of it, and it really is good. Way better than I thought it would, phenominal in fact.

 

[THC4SIM]

Gimmi a Bite!!!!

 

[Guest]

I love Stromboli.

Gotta go with chicken breast, and pineapple though. thats the dankity dank

 

[Insomniac]

mmm Stromboli. I like to dip mine in either pizza sauce (maranara) or ranch!

 

[Guest]

Ranch? That's like dipping fat in fat! no offense.

 

[Endo]

Ranch? That's like dipping fat in fat! no offense.

yeah cause eating all that cheese grease pepperoni ham and salami by is self is fine. its like throwing a deck chair off the queen mary.. at this point its really not going to make a diffrence...

 

[Gangabiss]

lol your post made me laugh and I'm not even high.

"+10000 points" LMFAO


I've never heard of a stramboli before...I assume it's some sort of dough folded around to make a pocket, filled with.......filling? and then baked correct?
Anyone got any pics of one?

 

[Dankdude]

Personally I've always been a fan of Monte Christo Sandwiches.
Perfect munchies food.

 

[Guest]

Ganico thanks for making my mouth water!!!!!! I LOVE STROMBOLI!!!!

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[Pops]

Actually the strombolis that we made 30 years ago were totally different. I managed a pizza place in a college town and we introduced strombolis to the public there. What you are talking about is a calzone. A stromboli was simply a hot sandwich made with either French or Italian bread. It had cooked seasoned Italian sausage and pizza sauce on one side and a cheese mix with onions on the other side. It was baked until the cheese melted and the 2 halves were put together. We sold over 1000 per week back in the 1970's.

 

[Dankdude]

The closest your going to come to a real Stromboni is a Stoufers French Bread Pizza...
Like pops says Sparro's (the Mall Food Court pizza parlor) is making is a calzone.

 

[Tarkus]

Man, I love sandwiches and well hell, pretty much anything with meat, cheese and dough. Or even by themselves. When in South Dakota, I always get a pasty. It is usually steak, potatoes and onions in a pastry-like crust. It is damn good. Originally from Cornwall, United Kingdom, I believe the type I described is a Cornish Pasty (traditional). Man, they are just about one of my favorite meals in the world. Along with a damn good sandwich.

Some pasties aren't that delicious, but the nipple underneath ain't too bad to nibble on.

 

[Guest]

Actually the strombolis that we made 30 years ago were totally different. I managed a pizza place in a college town and we introduced strombolis to the public there. What you are talking about is a calzone. A stromboli was simply a hot sandwich made with either French or Italian bread. It had cooked seasoned Italian sausage and pizza sauce on one side and a cheese mix with onions on the other side. It was baked until the cheese melted and the 2 halves were put together. We sold over 1000 per week back in the 1970's.

Sorry Pops I have to disagree with you. Real Italian strombolis are made just like Ganico said. Calzones are a bit different almost the same though.

The best strombolis in San Jose are at DiMaggios. He is Joe DiMaggios cousin.

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[Pops]

Considering that the pizzas that I got in Aviano, Italy were nothing like the pizzas in the U.S., it is not surprising that people call food by different names in different parts of the country. In the Midwest, a stromboli is basically a sausage French bread pizza, but not an open-faced one like french bread pizza. I would like to see what the difference is between your stromboli and our calzone. I have been making stroms since 1970 and still enjoy them every couple of weeks. Who knows what real Italian stroms are. Real Italian pizzas were a way to get rid of leftovers and bear no resemblence to American pizzas.

 

[JJDubz]

Im going to have to say that what was described in the initial post was a panzerotto...

Call it a calzone (although those are typically baked then have tomatoe sauce added on top, or a panzerotto...but if you are encasing toppings inside dough, its one of the two...I think Pops is right on, this stromboli sounds like a sandwich to me.

Although Wikipedia says otherwise, and links them as fairly similar...

Either way, ill take my panzerotto with tom sauce, cheese, hot peppers, peperonni, ground sausage, and make it DEEP FRIEND plz

Mmmmm Deep Fried Bread....*drooooools*

 

[Pops]

After reading recipes on the net, I would say that what we called strombolis in the Midwest are not actually what you are calling strombolis. It was invented in Penn. by an Italian restaurant and named either after an Ingrid Bergmann movie or an island off the coast of Sicily, where the Stromboli volcano is located. There is no real Italian stromboli, only an Italian-American stromboli and a Midwest knock-off. I still like the Midwest version, but I would like to try the other one.Next time you guys fix one, invite me over.

 

[Guest]

After reading recipes on the net, I would say that what we called strombolis in the Midwest are not actually what you are calling strombolis. It was invented in Penn. by an Italian restaurant and named either after an Ingrid Bergmann movie or an island off the coast of Sicily, where the Stromboli volcano is located. There is no real Italian stromboli, only an Italian-American stromboli and a Midwest knock-off. I still like the Midwest version, but I would like to try the other one.Next time you guys fix one, invite me over.

Hey Pops I wasn't trying to argue with you. It's just that here they serve both strombolis and calzones. The difference is that the stromboli is covered in sauce. Eitherway all this good food is making me hungry Man I need a stromboli now!!!!!

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[Mr. Nevermind]

Hey Pops I wasn't trying to argue with you. It's just that here they serve both strombolis and calzones. The difference is that the stromboli is covered in sauce. Eitherway all this good food is making me hungry Man I need a stromboli now!!!!!

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Calzones are make with both ricotta and mozerella cheese. Where as a stromboli is made wihtout ricotta. sauce makes no differnce, its the cheese





Nevermind

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the correction Mr. N. I'm no Italian, but I love the food

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